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breeds, are excellent mothers, and their flesh 

 is as firm and well flavoured as need be ; 

 besides which they may be found, at mode- 

 rate cost, in every village of the kingdom, 

 without seeking for superior breeds in dis- 

 tant markets, at considerable trouble and in- 

 creased expense ; which breeds too, if not 

 highly kept, will assuredly degenerate. 



A treatise lately published on the subject in 

 the United States, indeed sensibly recommends, 

 as the better practice, in order to make a poul- 

 try yard profitable — "to select no particular 

 breed ; to commence with pullets and cocks of 

 the first year of all breeds ; and every year 

 exchange a nestful or two of eggs with such 

 of your neighbours as have good fowls : by 

 steadily pursuing which practice, you will 

 yearly infuse new blood into your stock, and 

 avoid the inconvenience of breeding in-and- 

 in." We, therefore, recommend them to the 

 attention of every housewife who looks more 

 to economy in the maintenance and abund- 

 ance of produce, than to the beauty or the 

 fancied delicacy on the table of her feathered- 

 stock. 



